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<a href="food.html#OEI">OE Introduction</a></td>
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<a href="food.html#SBC">Scriftboc</a></td><td> &nbsp; <font face="arial" size="+1"><a href="food.html#CTH">Canons of Theodore</td>
<td> &nbsp; <font face="arial" size="+1"><a href="food.html#OEP">OE Penitential</td> <td> &nbsp; <font face="arial" size="+1"><a href="food.html#OEH">OE Handbook</td></tr></TABLE>
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_90b.html#X09.05.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X09.05.01</a></b>  In the first joining of man and woman it is proper for the
	 priest that he should sing Mass and bless the union; and they afterwards so comport themselves
	 so that they visit the church with alms [i.e., do not attend church but only give alms]; and when
	 the days have gone by they must pray, and fast for forty nights and after that go to Communion.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_93a.html#X14.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X14.04.01</a></b>  A woman during her menstrual period is not to visit the
	 church or go to communion, neither a nun nor a laywoman; if she does it she is to fast twenty days.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_94a.html#X15.10.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X15.10.01</a></b>  A woman is allowed to take communion before she gives
	 birth if it is necessary for her.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_96a.html#X18.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X18.06.01</a></b>  According to the judgment of the canon, one is to fast
	 before he goes to Communion until his (lit. their) penance is complete. Some wish that he
	 should be able to go to Communion after twelve or seven months; [but] some wish that they have
	 completed their fast. 
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_96a.html#X19.01.00" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X19.01.00</a></b> XXI  Concerning work on Sunday and on the service of the Eucharist
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_96a.html#X19.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X19.02.01</a></b>  The Greeks, both laity and clergy, wish to go to Communion every Sunday, 
	 and those who do not go to communion for three Sundays are anathema, according to the judgment 
	 of the canon.  Romans go to Communion in this way, but they are not anathema if they cannot go. 
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_96b.html#X19.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X19.04.01</a></b>  On any one altar you may in one day sing two masses;
	 whoever is not present at the service before the consecration is not allowed at the kiss to come
	 for Communion.  He who does not wish to take Communion should not go afterwards to the
	 priest's hand for bread, nor to Communion, nor go for the kiss.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_96b.html#X19.05.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X19.05.01</a></b>  One may not take Communion from the hands of a masspriest who cannot say the 
	 prayers or the readings according to custom. 
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_97a.html#X20.05.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X20.05.01</a></b>  A woman may go to Communion under a dark veil, as Basil judged.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.01.00" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.01.00</a></b> XXIIII  Concerning neglect of the Eucharist
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.01.01</a></b>  If anyone loses the Eucharist through carelessness he is to fast one year or 
	 the three 40-day fasting periods. 
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.02.01</a></b>  if the offering should fall on the ground through carelessness, (he is to) 
	 sing fifty psalms.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.03.01</a></b>  Whoever neglects the consecrated host, so that it lies so long that it 
	 becomes unclean or loses its shape, he is to fast forty days;
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.04.01</a></b>  If someone throws up the host, he is to fast forty days.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.05.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.05.01</a></b>  If he vomits because of [drunkenness or gluttony or] illness, he is 
	 to fast seven days or is to sing two psalters. 
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.06.01</a></b>  If one throws the host into a fire or a stream when one gives it for 
	 eating he is to sing one hundred psalms.  If a dog eats the vomit that one afterwards
	 vomits, he is to fast one hundred days.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.07.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.07.01</a></b>  Any host that becomes unclean or too old, let someone burn it. 
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98a.html#X22.08.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.08.01</a></b>  If a mouse eat the Eucharist through the carelessness of the
	 man who ought to keep it, he is to fast forty or thirty days.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X01.09.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.09.01</a></b>  Whoever loses a particle of the host in church is to fast twenty days.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X22.10.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.10.01</a></b>  Whoever loses his crismal among the people and does not
	 find it again is to fast the three 40-day fasting periods or an entire year. 
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X22.11.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.11.01</a></b>  Whoever spills the chalice when he has celebrated Mass is to fast for thirty days.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X22.12.00" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X22.12.00</a></b>  Whoever eats before he goes to Communion and after that receives the Eucharist is to fast seven days.
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X23.01.00" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.01.00</a></b>  XXV  Concerning consecrated food and that which is eaten in the world 
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	 <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X23.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.01.01</a></b>  If one loses a consecrated food, however small, or newly blessed bread, 
	 or blessed salt or incense, or anything similar, he is to fast seven days. If it be a greater quantity 
	 and holier, let the fast be the greater.
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	 <b><a href="Bx8558_152a.html#B77.04.06" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.04.06</a></b>  A woman shall not enter a church during her menstrual
	 period nor go to communion, neither nuns nor laywomen; if they presume to do this, they must
	 fast for 3 weeks. 
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_1a.html#Y41.10.00" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y41.10.00</a></b>  Concerning those who yearn for the Eucharist when depairing of life and arise again from that misery 
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_1b.html#Y41.13.00" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y41.13.00</a></b>  Concerning those to whom the Eucharist is forbidden and
	 who die in that condition 
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_2a.html#Y41.03.01" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y41.03.01</a></b>  Of this it is needful, that the priest console a man so
	 disposed and hear his confession and especially not refuse him the Eucharist; and even though
	 he is so weighed down with sickness that he may not speak as he might have before, (then) if he
	 have witness of the men who are with him that he yearns for confession and the Eucharist, then
	 the priest should grant him forgiveness and the last rites. 
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_4b.html#Y41.13.01" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y41.13.01</a></b>  Concerning this thing, <span style="position: relative;" onmouseover="this.T_FONTSIZE='12px'; this.T_SHADOWWIDTH=5; this.T_SHADOWCOLOR='#553355'; this.T_TITLE='Note';return escape( 'The text appears to refer to the heading.');"><img src="pics/note.jpg"/></span> we do not know how to consider it any other way, except
	 that it should be according to God's judgment. For it was in God's power that he died without the Eucharist.
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_7a.html#Y42.08.01" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y42.08.01</a></b>   The man who forsakes his lawful wife and takes another
	 is an adulterer; no priest is to give him the Eucharist or any of the rites that pertain to
	 Christian men; and, if he should happen to die, not to bury him with Christians. And if the woman
	 forsakes her lawful husband and chooses another, she is to have the same judgment in the amount
	 that is said above.
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_7a.html#Y42.08.02" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y42.08.02</a></b>  And the kinsmen who were at that declaration suffer
	 the same judgment unless they soon wish to turn to penance as their confessor prescribes for
	 them.
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_7a.html#Y41.09.01" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y42.09.01</a></b>  (Concerning) the man who has a lawful spouse and also a concubine: no priest 
	 is to give him Eucharist or the last rites that he performs for Christians unless
	 he turn to repentance. And if he has a concubine and not a lawful spouse, he acts in that matter
	 according to his wishes, but he is to know nevertheless that he is to be satisfied with one
	 alone, be it the concubine, be it the wife. 
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_8b.html#Y42.21.01" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y42.21.01</a></b>  The holy books prescribe what is to be done by every faithful man when he 
	 first brings home his lawful spouse. That is, according to the books' teaching, that they 
	 must first remain chaste for 3 days and nights, and then on the third day they
	 must attend Mass and both take the Eucharist, and afterwards observe their marriage before God
	 and the world as their need is. 
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_10a.html#Y42.26.01" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y42.26.01</a></b>  If anyone gives false witness, it is not permitted to him that he receive 
	 Eucharist before he confesses and repents as his confessor prescribes for him.
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_12a.html#Y43.07.01" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y43.07.01</a></b>  If a bishop or a masspriest or any servant of God lend his
	 property for lawful interest and does not remember what the Savior said through David the
	 psalmist:  he said that they should partake of his kingdom who give their property for no
	 unlawful interest.  If anyone breaks this (law), he is not deserving that he receive the Eucharist, 
	 before he repent as it is written above, that is, fast for 3 years.
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_12b.html#Y43.14.01" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y43.14.01</a></b>  As soon as St. Augustine had brought baptism to the
	 English people and established God's servants everywhere and had established order, then he
	 sent a letter to Rome to St. Gregory, who was the pope, and asked him that he send him in a letter
	 what he was to do concerning nightly pollution  
	 which very often happens to men in their sleep, whether on that account he might go to
	 Eucharist in the morning or consecrate the Host if he were a masspriest.
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_12b.html#Y43.14.02" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y43.14.02</a></b>  He wisely sent an answer to him and said that every servant of God 
	 should earnestly consider from what cause the nightly pollution came.  For it comes to 
	 the minds of sleeping ones from three things:  sometimes because of natural infirmity,
	 sometimes because of excess of food and drink, and sometimes also because the man thought
	 and dwelled on vain and forbidden things during the day, then (so that) what he thought about
	 waking during the day, that came to him sleeping at night.
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_13a.html#Y43.14.04" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y43.14.04</a></b>  And if it happens because of excess of food and drink, he is guilty 
	 and yet nevertheless, the Eucharist is not forbidden to him nor to sing mass, if he is a
	 masspriest, if it is a case of extreme need and there is no other priest who can perform the
	 services.  If there is another who is able to perform the services, it is better for him that he forgo
	 it (Eucharist, or Mass) that day and ask for forgiveness for himself with psalms and
	 alms.
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_13a.html#Y43.14.05" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y43.14.05</a></b>   If it happens in the third way (specified above) that the man during 
	 the day would think or consider an unlawful thing and take vain desires and pleasure
	 in it, and then through that and through the devil's hypocrisy be soiled in his sleep, it is not
	 permitted to take the Eucharist in the morning after the night on which it happens to him, but he
	 ever has need that he confess it and do penance as his confessor prescribes for him.
	 </p>
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_17b.html#Y44.34.01" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y44.34.01</a></b>  A woman during her menstrual period is not to visit the
	 church nor go to Eucharist, neither a nun nor a laywoman; if she does it she is to fast twenty
	 days. 
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	 <b><a href="LAUD482_18b.html#Y44.51.01" Title="Goes to the Laud  manuscript">Y44.51.01</a></b>  Whoever eats before he goes to Communion and after that receives the Eucharist is to fast seven days.
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	 <b><a href="CORP201_123.html#D56.06.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">D56.06.01</a></b> And at the last mass let someone give him absolution
	 and he may then go to the Eucharist unless he be guilty so such a degree that he cannot yet do
	 so. 
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